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Team Focus: Encouraging Start to Benítez Era at Napoli

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Team Focus: Encouraging Start to Benítez Era at Napoli Resisting the temptations on offer in Naples’ restaurants is, by Rafa Benitez’s own admission, “torture.” “I have already received 100s of invitations to try the pasta and pizza [here], but I don’t know how [I’ll be able to accept them all],” he told L...

Team Focus: How Napoli Are Replacing Edinson Cavani

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Team Focus: How Napoli Are Replacing Edinson Cavani No club wants to lose its best player. And yet there were times during this summer when Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis gave the impression that he was enjoying the prospect of losing Edinson Cavani.Why? Because, whatever happened, he felt confident he’d be a winner. If Cavani stayed at...

Player Focus: Julio César - A Better Option for Napoli than Arsenal

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Player Focus: Julio César - A Better Option for Napoli than Arsenal Only 3 summers ago Julio César was lifting the Champions League trophy aloft as José Mourinho's Inter Milan side completed an historic treble. He was named Serie A goalkeeper of the year and UEFA's best goalkeeper following his side's success. At the time, few could have argued with th...

Player Focus: Why Marek Hamsik Is Napoli's Creative Lynchpin

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Player Focus: Why Marek Hamsik Is Napoli's Creative Lynchpin There is something quite wonderful about Napoli, most notably the scalpel-sharp attacking trident utilised by Walter Mazzarri last season for the Partenopei. The application of Ezequiel Lavezzi, Marek Hamsik and Edinson Cavani not only made the club aesthetically pleasing from a fans perspective, bu...

WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting - The Merseyside Derby and More

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting - The Merseyside Derby and More Come this time in the season a weekend is always going to feature important games, and this week's clashes are as key as any. Super Sunday in the Premier League is a tasty one, while Barcelona can all but secure the Primera Division title and Napoli can do much to end Inter's dwindling hopes of Euro...

WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting Seeing the joy of teams progressing to the semi-finals of the Champions and Europa League this week can only serve to motivate others into working their way up the league and pushing for qualification for next season's tournaments. Domestic league action returns this weekend with some tasty looking ...

League Focus: The Serie A Run-In

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League Focus: The Serie A Run-In The end of the season is nearly upon us in Serie A.Apart from Juventus, flush with a nine-point lead at the top of the table and poised to retain their title providing that they don't experience an unlikely post-Bayern collapse in the meantime and throw it away as controversially happened under the ...

Player Focus: Hamsik the Key to Napoli's Scudetto Challenge

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Player Focus: Hamsik the Key to Napoli's Scudetto Challenge A place in Napoli's history books awaits Marek Hamsik. At 25, he is already in the club's top 10 goalscorers of all-time, a remarkable feat for a midfield player. Up until now, I've got 68, he said, and the objective is to get to 77, where there's [Giuseppe] Savoldi. To overtake Maradona [on 115], I...

WhoScored Tipster: Sunday's Betting Specials

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday's Betting Specials The weekly WhoScored betting tipster is back but with a slightly different angle this time around, focusing on a number of enticing tips across Europe to mull over. With the Premier League not in action this weekend due to FA Cup duties, we've looked at games from the rest of the top 5 leagues and a...

WhoScored Tipster: Napoli vs Roma & First Goalscorers

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WhoScored Tipster: Napoli vs Roma & First Goalscorers With fans having to satisfy their thirst for football over the Christmas period almost solely with English league football, La Liga and Serie A make a welcome return to action this weekend, with some tasty games in store. The FA Cup takes centre stage in England, so a top 6 clash between Napoli and ...